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@enharu wrote:
Ok so while messing around witth the discover app on iPhone, I noticed that there's a send money feature, powered by PayPal.
The sweet benefits of this feature is that I can send money, using my discover card, to someone, who doesn't have to be a discover member. Best part of it all is that both sender and receiver are not subject to 3% fee that PayPal usually charges when the payment is funded by a credit card.
There is a limit of 1000 per month, and the transfer is charged at regular purchase apr, not as a cash advance. Cashback is earned on transfers!!!
Now in my mind, I can transfer this to my girlfriend, and pay the 1000 off immediately. If I do this each month, its effectively 120 in cashback + more usage on my discover card. The 120 alone is more than what BofA gives as bonus for paying on time for the better balance card.
However my main concern is that as sweet as this pseudo manufactured spending sounds, will it affect my CLI chances? Or will it affect anything negatively?
What about cash-overs at grocery stores as well?
Thanks!
I'm pretty sure that would lead to some kind of flag in their system and eventual AA or account closure
I use the feature often, but to different people. No one ever complained about this so far. But sending 1K every months to the same person could raise some questions ...
@LS2982 wrote:
@enharu wrote:
Ok so while messing around witth the discover app on iPhone, I noticed that there's a send money feature, powered by PayPal.
The sweet benefits of this feature is that I can send money, using my discover card, to someone, who doesn't have to be a discover member. Best part of it all is that both sender and receiver are not subject to 3% fee that PayPal usually charges when the payment is funded by a credit card.
There is a limit of 1000 per month, and the transfer is charged at regular purchase apr, not as a cash advance. Cashback is earned on transfers!!!
Now in my mind, I can transfer this to my girlfriend, and pay the 1000 off immediately. If I do this each month, its effectively 120 in cashback + more usage on my discover card. The 120 alone is more than what BofA gives as bonus for paying on time for the better balance card.
However my main concern is that as sweet as this pseudo manufactured spending sounds, will it affect my CLI chances? Or will it affect anything negatively?
What about cash-overs at grocery stores as well?
Thanks!I'm pretty sure that would lead to some kind of flag in their system and eventual AA or account closure
+1. I would be careful about abusing this feature.
@enharu wrote:
Ah thanks. Guess I won't do it then.
I've been using cash over feature only because I needed cash though, and I've been paying my bill down almost completely. Hopefully this doesn't haunt me :/
Thats exactly how you should use the feature and what Discover hopes you do: when you need it.
@enharu wrote:
Ok so while messing around witth the discover app on iPhone, I noticed that there's a send money feature, powered by PayPal.
The sweet benefits of this feature is that I can send money, using my discover card, to someone, who doesn't have to be a discover member. Best part of it all is that both sender and receiver are not subject to 3% fee that PayPal usually charges when the payment is funded by a credit card.
There is a limit of 1000 per month, and the transfer is charged at regular purchase apr, not as a cash advance. Cashback is earned on transfers!!!
Now in my mind, I can transfer this to my girlfriend, and pay the 1000 off immediately. If I do this each month, its effectively 120 in cashback + more usage on my discover card. The 120 alone is more than what BofA gives as bonus for paying on time for the better balance card.
However my main concern is that as sweet as this pseudo manufactured spending sounds, will it affect my CLI chances? Or will it affect anything negatively?
What about cash-overs at grocery stores as well?
Thanks!
Since it is capped, it's probably not too heavily monitored, but that leads to the question of how much you value the Discover: if for whatever reason they decided you had abused it and closed your cards, would the gains prior to that event outweigh that?
If you are sending to the same person each month, I would use an amount just under $1000, looks less suspicious!